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$22 Million: DC’s Most Expensive Home Finds a Buyer

by UrbanTurf Staff

$22 Million: DC's Most Expensive Home Finds a Buyer: Figure 1
Fessenden House

DC’s most expensive home on the market went under contract late last week, UrbanTurf has learned.

Fessenden House, a sprawling 20,000-square-foot home in Forest Hills, hit the market for $22 million back in March. It officially went under contract on Friday.

Listed by Nancy Itteliag of Long and Foster Real Estate and its affiliate Christie’s, the palatial seven-bedroom home at 3107 Fessenden Street NW (map) was owned by Samuel Lehrman, whose family co-founded Giant supermarket. Lehrman acquired the three adjacent lots that the home sits on in the early 1990s and built the sprawling estate on the acre of purchased land.

$22 Million: DC's Most Expensive Home Finds a Buyer: Figure 2

The formal home was modeled after 18th century English and Scottish architecture. In addition to grand rooms for entertaining, the home has a pool, a poolhouse, a wine cellar and tasting room, as well as private quarters for staff.

Here are more photos of the listing:

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Photos Courtesy of HomeVisit

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/22_million_dcs_most_expensive_home_finds_a_buyer/10387

1 Comment

  1. EckingtonNEDC said at 8:59 pm on Tuesday September 29, 2015:
    I just knew that home(estate) was very old, 1800's or so, not built in the 1990's, so twenty something years old. But it's a beautiful estate.

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